Why Strings as Classes?

[BCS]

Reply to Benji,

> BCS wrote:
> 
>> Ditto, D is a *systems language* It's *supposed* to have access to
>> the lowest level representation and build stuff on top of that
>> 
> But in this "systems language", it's a O(n) operation to get the nth
> character from a string, to slice a string based on character offsets,
> or to determine the number of characters in the string.
> 
> I'd gladly pay the price of a single interface vtable lookup to turn
> all of those into O(1) operations.
> 
> --benji
> 

Then borrow, buy, steal or build a class that does that /on top of the D 
arrays/

No one has said that this should not be available, just that it should not 
/replace/ what is available